Although sometimes the language is a little difficult, I really encourage you to read this from today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:
I being in the way, the Lord led
me. . . —Genesis 24:27
We have to be so one with God that we do not
continually need to ask for guidance. Sanctification means that we are made the
children of God, and the natural life of a child is obedience – until he wishes
to be disobedient, then instantly there is the intuitive jar. In the spiritual
domain the intuitive jar is the monition of the Spirit of God. When He gives
the check, we have to stop at once and be renewed in the spirit of our mind in
order to make out what God’s will is. If we are born again of the Spirit of
God, it is the abortion of piety to ask God to guide us here and there.
"The Lord led me," and on looking back we see the presence of an
amazing design, which, if we are born of God, we will credit to God.
We can all see God in exceptional things, but
it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
Never allow that the haphazard is anything less than God’s appointed order, and
be ready to discover the Divine designs any where.
Beware of making a fetish of consistency to
your convictions instead of being devoted to God. I shall never do that – in
all probability you will have to, if you are a saint. There never was a more
inconsistent Being on this earth than Our Lord, but He was never inconsistent
to His Father. The one consistency of the saint is not to a principle, but to
the Divine life. It is the Divine life which continually makes more and more
discoveries about the Divine mind. It is easier to be a fanatic than a faithful
soul, because there is something amazingly humbling, particularly to our
religious conceit, in being loyal to God.
God has instructed us THIS in Romans 8:14 and John 10:27:
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
When we REALLY get to know HIM intimately, as Philippians 3:10 AMP says, then we will not be bound by denominational standards and whims, but in TRUTH by the Word of God and the Spirit of God! When we give an account of our lives, we will NOT be judged on how well we followed denominational standards, but on how obedient we were to the Word of God, the Spirit of God and our own individual Heavenly calling! If you are born again, having received Jesus as Lord and personal Savior, then you CAN be led by the Spirit of God! This is exponentially easier when you receive the INFILLING of the Holy Spirit! Concerning praying in the Spirit, we have THIS promise from the Word of God in 1 Corinthians 14:2:
2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. NKJV
2 For one who speaks in an [unknown] tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands or catches his meaning, because in the [Holy] Spirit he utters secret truths and hidden things [not obvious to the understanding]. AMP
So, forget pleasing men and the standards of PC society and get alone with the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible! Listen, HEAR, SEE and then DO! AMEN! You CAN do this! Here is Hillsong United with "Oceans - Where Feet May Fail":
Shalom in Him!
